KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah marked the National Working Women’s Day by recognising the significant contributions of women to the province’s economy and democracy. In his message issued on the National Women’s Working Day, the CM lauded women’s equal role
KARACHI: A young nurse was rescued by police from the alleged wrongful confinement by her paternal family, who had shaved her head as a punishment for wanting to marry of her own free will, officials said on 22nd December. Quaidabad SHO Farasat
HYDERABAD: Sindh Higher Education Commission’s chairman, Prof Dr S.M. Tariq Rafi, has lamented that the government spends huge amounts of public money to prepare doctors, who can serve the community but if female students, who dominate medical institutions, do not join the
Police arrested six people, including four women, on 20 December 2024 for allegedly attacking and injuring polio workers and policemen after an anti- polio team attempted to administer polio drops to children in Karachi’s Korangi area. The incident took place at a
KARACHI: Pakistan’s first genetic molecular laboratory has been inaugurated with the cooperation of the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America (APPNA), an organisation of Pakistani-origin doctors based in the United States. The newly established lab, located on the campus of Jinnah
A judicial magistrate on 17 December 2024 granted bail to a young man, who was arrested after a video of him exposing himself in front of a woman in the Yousuf Goth area went viral on social media. Surjani Town police lodged
The family of a woman who mysteriously died at a private hospital in the Gulshan-e-Maymar area of Karachi’s Site Superhighway industrial area has accused her husband and in-laws of beating her to death before taking her body to the hospital. According to
KARACHI: Human rights crusaders, environmental activists, legislators, lawyers, and academic scholars on December 17 sounded the alarm about the suffering of communities still grappling with the aftermath of the 2022 floods in Sindh. While speaking at a seminar on Tuesday, they stressed
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Education Syed Sardar Ali Shah has advised private schools to relax uniform codes in view of the harsh winter to help protect children from the cold while ensuring the continuity of their education. Following the Minister’s directive, the
KARACHI: In a landmark moment for the first-ever Sindh Children’s Parliament, Syeda Rida Batool Kazmi took oath as Chief Minister after securing a decisive victory with 40 votes. Her contender, a ninth-grade student from GHS Mithi Tharparkar, Ashok Kumar, trailed behind with